How much do Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators make in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA?

Percentile spread

For Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators, the published 10th percentile is $35,480 and the 90th percentile is $81,430. The difference is $45,950, which is 106.3% of the median. Ten percent of measured wages fall below the 10th percentile and ten percent fall above the 90th. How to read a percentile.

The middle half of the distribution, from the 25th percentile at $37,480 to the 75th at $57,380, covers $19,900.

The mean annual wage is $50,380, which sits above the median of $43,240. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA median is 6.5% higher than the national median of $40,610 for Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators. In 2024 national prices the local median is $40,623, which is about the same as that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is 8.6% lower than the California median of $47,320.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA is 106.442, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $43,240 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators at $40,623 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.

Nearby metros

One other metropolitan area within 200 miles publishes a annual median for Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators. Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA ranks 2nd of 2 on that median, counting itself. Distance is the great-circle mileage between Census Bureau internal points (U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 Gazetteer Files, Core Based Statistical Areas, internal points (INTPTLAT, INTPTLONG).).

• Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is 121 miles away, with a median of $47,450 and employment of 280. That median is 9.7% higher than the median here. In 2024 national prices it is $41,782, against $40,623 here.

Employment share

Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators accounts for 0.00% of wage-and-salary employment in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA (60 of 1,716,760). Nationally the occupation is 0.00% of employment (4,800 of 155,495,730). The local share is 1.13 times the national share. That ratio is the location quotient computed from these May 2025 employment counts. It is not copied from the location-quotient column in the BLS bulk file.